2022
video documentation of my family’s brick coop 1958-1968, in conversation 
with my grandma

in the 60s my great-grandad together with the neighbouring families used to have a brick cooperative. they used to dig out the clay from close-by hills and collectively turn it into bricks to get the material to build their family houses
and barns

the earth from underneath their feet gave a roof over their heads. the land they 
settled on provided shelter. they took something from the earth because 
that’s all they knew and stopped taking when their needs were satisfied